I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.
I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.
When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much.
Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.
Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.
With George Bush, I had absolutely no fear that I would ever be silenced. With Donald Trump, I think I could get dragged offstage and have people actually cheer it. I never thought that would happen in America.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.
Anyone who comes into your office with an idea, and it may be the silliest idea in the world, listen to them and never ridicule them.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.
Even when I got ₹500 a month as pocket money, I would never spend all of it. It's the same now. I am just conscious of the fact that I wasn't born with a silver spoon.
The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.
I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.
I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.
You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.
Being booked for simulation is never good.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
